Ambrose Little - Infragistics Community

The Case for Metro Style Line of Business (LOB) Apps

Since Microsoft debuted the new Windows 8 "Metro" OS interface, there has been no end of people in the Microsoft dev space opining on both the interface and its applicability or lack of applicability. Not long after BUILD last year, one blogger...

Published 05-15-2012 11:34 AM By [Infragistics] Ambrose Little

Filed under: UX, Metro, Design, Win8

Building Better UX Using Patterns

Over this last weekend, I and a couple of Infragistics colleagues spoke at TechBash 2012 in NE Pennsylvania. The talk is one that I've shared at a number of places over the years, but because it's not technology based, it doesn't really age...

Published 04-30-2012 11:30 AM By [Infragistics] Ambrose Little

Filed under: UX

Infragistics Undo/Redo Framework CTP

Did you know we CTP'd a new Undo/Redo framework with our last release? Well, we did! And we'd love to get feedback from you--do you think it's useful? How would you use it? How would you change it? That sort of thing. Here's a quick rundown...

Published 01-26-2012 5:58 PM By [Infragistics] Ambrose Little

Filed under: Silverlight, WPF

The New Infragistics Install Experience

With the release of NetAdvantage 2011 Volume 1, Infragistics has significantly updated our installation experience. In this post, let’s dig into what that means concretely. First, we made a new “ Platform Installer ” to help you manage all your Infragistics...

Published 06-09-2011 2:06 PM By [Infragistics] Ambrose Little

PDC 2008 = Awesome

A crew of us at Infragistics just got back from our PDC 2008 trip last week. It was pretty awesome. Sunday - Party with Palermo Sunday night, we were the "supergreen!" sponsor of the recurring Party with Palermo . Kathleen...

Published 11-03-2008 9:12 PM By [Infragistics] Ambrose Little

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, Windows Forms, WPF

From Blah to Aha! in Web Sites/Apps

There are a ton of resources out there to help developers (and designers) make better Web sites and applications, but I wanted to draw out three that I think will have a very high ROI for any developer who is building for the Web. You could easily...

Published 06-12-2008 2:50 PM By [Infragistics] Ambrose Little

Filed under: Best Practices, UX

Visual Studio Tutorials (.com)

One of our IG champs (unofficial term), Christopher Bishop, has put up a really snazzy independent community site called VisualStudioTutorials.com : It has a tutorials, code snippets, and forums, and he'd love to get more folks using Infragistics...

Published 05-06-2008 11:59 PM By [Infragistics] Ambrose Little

Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET

Minor faceOut Update

As reported by Dave Sussman (and others ), the initial version expected to be running on US systems (thanks to some hard-coded US date formats in the sample XML data). I've since updated faceOut to handle those peculiarities (including forcing...

Published 04-09-2008 6:43 PM By [Infragistics] Ambrose Little

Filed under: Silverlight

German Article (auf Deutsch!) on Infragistics Excel Engine

I just wanted to point out an article written by one of our top German community members, André Krämer. Thanks, Andre! "Wenn Excel mehr als eine Datensenke sein soll" "Optisch ansprechenden Excel-Dateien zu erzeugen, erfordert...

Published 04-08-2008 1:56 PM By [Infragistics] Ambrose Little

Filed under: .NET

faceOut - our latest Silverlight 2 app - is Alive!

If you want to get an [updated] overview of what we're doing with Silverlight, go to our Focus on Silverlight area . We've published a high-level roadmap there and that's also where you can get an intro and overview of faceOut (as well as...

Published 03-17-2008 1:50 PM By [Infragistics] Ambrose Little

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight